Statistical Modelling in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Selected Papers /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: MacKenzie, Gilbert (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Peng, Defen (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Contributions to Statistics,
• Θέματα: Statistics.; Bioinformatics.; Biostatistics.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.

This book presents selected papers on statistical model development related mainly to the fields of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. The coverage of the material falls squarely into the following categories: (a) Survival analysis and multivariate survival analysis, (b) Time series and longitudinal...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• An Appreciation - John Nelder, FRS
• Introduction
• Survival Modelling: Hougaard - Multivariate Interval-Censored Survival Data: Parametric, Semi-Parametric and Non-Parametric Models; MacKenzie and Ha - Multivariate Survival Models Based on the GTDL; Lynch and MacKenzie - Frailty Models with Structural Dispersion; Martinez and Hinde - Random Effects Ordinal Time Models for Grouped Toxicological Data from a Biological Control Assay
• Longitudinal Modelling & Time Series: Haywood and Randal - Modelling Seasonality and Structural Breaks: Visitors to NZ and 9/11; Allais and Bosco - Forecasting the Insolvency Risk of the Customers of an Automotive Financial Service; Xu and MacKenzie - On Joint Modelling of Constrained Mean and Covariance Structures in Longitudinal Data
• Statistical Model Development: Payne - Hierarchical Generalized Nonlinear Models; Durio and Isaia - Comparing Robust Regression Estimators to Detect Data Clusters: A Case Study; Coffey, Hinde and Garcia - Finite Mixture Model Clustering of SNP Data; Peng and MacKenzie - Discrepancy and Choice of Reference Subclass in Categorical Regression Models
• Applied Statistical Modelling: Ramsey - Statistical Methods for Detecting Selective Sweeps; Brophy, Gibson, Wayne and Connolly - A Mixture Model and Bootstrap Analysis to Assess Reproductive Allocation in Plants; Conde and MacKenzie - On Model Selection Algorithms in Multi-Dimensional Contingency Tables
• Postscript: Durio and MacKenzie - Obituary: Professor Ennio Isaia.